Ding Ling
Ding Ling (1904-1986), formerly romanized as Ting Ling, was the pen name of Jiang Bingzhi or simply Bin Zhi, was a Chinese writer, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her feminist and socialist realist literature, and was one of China's most influential and controversial personality. She was also a political activist and has a reform-oriented mind. That is why she was first forced into exile by right-wing Kuomintang (Nationalist) government and later became target of left-wing Communist government in anti-rightist campaign (1957). She stopped writing for publication, however, later resumed after being rehabilitated by government in 1979.Wisdom & Quotes
- Live and die your own way, unnoticed.
- In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one's own fiercest enemy.
- Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.
- I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.
- Rather than calling this diary a record of my life, it's
- Diary of Miss Sophie
- When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word woman and raise it specially?
- Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
- As for writing, I sometimes feel that it would not be much of a loss if we gave it up entirely. We write, some people read, time passes, and there is no effect whatsoever. What is the meaning of it, then, except we've gotten paid for it?
Deng Xiaoping